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Qualcomm Accelerates AI Wearables With Snapdragon Reality Elite And START

Qualcomm is betting that the next wave of computing will be worn on the face and powered by AI. In two separate announcements, the chipmaker introduces Snapdragon START for personal AI smartglasses and Snapdragon Reality Elite for spatial computing.

Snapdragon START (Scalable Turnkey AI-Ready Toolkit) is for brands that want to build personal AI devices faster, beginning with smart glasses. The idea is to package hardware modules, connectivity, and an AI-agnostic software stack with a manufacturing ecosystem so device makers can spend less time stitching together core components and more time designing the product itself. Qualcomm says the program is meant for consumer and enterprise brands as well as emerging innovators, with support for more form factors planned later this year.

The company is pitching START as a way to lower the barrier of entry for eyewear makers that want to move from concept to commercial product . Inspecs, the...

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In Toy Story 5, the problem really is these damn phones (and tablets)

The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic action figure. Woody and Buzz’s rivalry embodied a shift that was happening in the ’90s as children’s toys were becoming more technologically sophisticated, and while toys have gotten

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How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Amazon’s Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and the four-day sale for 2026 begins June 23rd at 3:01AM ET and ends at the same time on June 27th. It will grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the

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Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Critics and competitors have long complained about the "Apple Tax" – the sales commission developers are obliged to pay on App Store sales and in-app purchases. Now Microsoft engineers have documented a performance tax – the performance hit that iOS users today endure because Apple requires iOS browsers, with theoretical

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Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more

Homebrew logo Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us The Homebrew team has released version 6.0 of this popular open-source package manager for macOS and Linux, with a new mechanism for trusting packages and support for sandboxing on Linux,

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In Toy Story 5, the problem really is these damn phones (and tablets)

How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft

Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more